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Slow Page Load Time Not Always the Culprit in Poor SEO Rankings

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In a Google Webmaster Central Blog post , Zhiheng Wang and Doantam Phan write: The ‘Speed Update,’ as we’re calling it, will only affect pages that deliver the slowest experience to users and will only affect a small percentage of queries. 2017 Local Search Ranking Factors (Moz). Searchmetrics Ranking Factors 101.

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How to Adopt a Customer-Centric Strategy for Your Content

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HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: The 2017 Content Marketing Framework: 5 Building Blocks for Profitable, Scalable Operations. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by the sources, not the CMI editorial team. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space.

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7 Content Marketing Tasks to Automate Right Now

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No matter how far AI advances go, software will never replace a human for crafting an insightful and meaningful blog post. According to The Litmus 2017 State of Email Report , 68% of companies take at least one week to produce one email. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space. Workflow automation: IFTTT.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Audience Development

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In 2016, when Intel iQ boasted 2 million monthly readers who averaged more than two minutes per visit, the iQ team wondered what is the additional value of a returning reader versus a first timer? Consider how the team treated a series devoted to virtual reality. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space.

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How Tom’s of Maine Found Success in Micro-Influencer Marketing

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Bridget left Tom’s of Maine in September 2017 after this interview was complete.). Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team. No one post can provide all relevant tools in the space. CCO: What is micro-influencer marketing?

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How to Get Ranked and Read With the Topic Cluster Content Model

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The topic cluster methodology, also known as the “pillar-and-cluster” technique, was first detailed by HubSpot Research in 2017. Then several supporting blog posts – clusters – are written to explain sub-topics based on your pillar content and generate internal links to the pillar page. The topic clusters model. Click To Tweet.

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Content Syndication: More Than a Traffic Boost

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The MainStreet editorial team was a fun, scrappy group, which was good because we were functioning as a startup within the company. The sales team can’t tell the editorial team what to write. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 19 Favorite Tools for Content Promotion in 2017. Click To Tweet. Content syndication.